Biggs Brandon, Coughlan James M, Toth Christopher, Walker Bruce N, Stockman Tony
Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute and Georgia Institute of Technology San Francisco and Atlanta, USA.
Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute San Francisco, USA.
Proc Int Conf Audit Disp. 2022 Jun;2022:82-90. doi: 10.21785/icad2022.027.
The auditory virtual reality interface of Audiom, a web-based map viewer, was evaluated by thirteen blind participants. In Audiom, the user is an avatar that navigates, using the arrow keys, through geographic data, as if they are playing a first-person, egocentric game. The research questions were: What will make blind users want to use Audiom maps? And Can participants demonstrate basic acquisition of spatial knowledge after viewing an auditory map? A dynamic choropleth map of state-level US COVID-19 data, and a detailed OpenStreetMap powered travel map, were evaluated. All participants agreed they wanted more maps of all kinds, in particular county-level COVID data, and they would use Audiom once some bugs were fixed and their few recommended features were added. Everyone wanted to see Audiom embedded in their existing travel and mapping applications. All participants were able to answer a question evaluating spatial knowledge. Participants also agreed this spatial information was not available in existing applications.
十三名盲人参与者对基于网络的地图查看器Audiom的听觉虚拟现实界面进行了评估。在Audiom中，用户是一个化身，通过使用箭头键在地理数据中导航，就好像他们在玩第一人称的、以自我为中心的游戏。研究问题是：什么会让盲人用户想要使用Audiom地图？以及参与者在查看听觉地图后能否展示对空间知识的基本掌握？对美国州级COVID-19数据的动态分级统计图和由详细的OpenStreetMap提供支持的旅行地图进行了评估。所有参与者都表示他们想要更多各类地图，特别是县级COVID数据，并且一旦修复一些漏洞并添加他们推荐的一些功能，他们就会使用Audiom。每个人都希望看到Audiom嵌入到他们现有的旅行和地图应用程序中。所有参与者都能够回答一个评估空间知识的问题。参与者们还一致认为现有应用程序中没有此类空间信息。
